Category Archives: Fanzines

More zines! Probe, e-fanzines, Origin, & Fanac Gazette

From Bill Burns, new zines at e-fanzines:

Just added at https://efanzines.com:

  • Leybl Botwinik’s CyberCozen – June 2022
  • New page for the Octothorpe Podcast transcriptions archive – includes subtitle files.
  • Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #24
  • David Grigg’s Through the Biblioscope #24 and new title The Megaloscope
  • R Graeme Cameron’s Great Galloping Ghu! #1


    Bill

From South Africa: PROBE192X Stunning cover art!!

June 2022
3. Editorial
4. Chairman’s Note
6. Magazines Received
6. Books Received
6. Blast from the past
7. Book Review
8. 3rd Place Nova 2021 “Contaminated” by
Martinus Stander Conradie
28. Nova 2021 Finalist “Planet of Boulders” by
Gary Kuyper
42. L.O.C Gary Kuyper
43. “Are we dead before we are born?” by
Hubert Haensel & Martin Munsonius
49. “A Reinterpretation of the Milky Way’s
Evolution and nature” – from The Daily
Galaxy.

With this mailing, we are sending you your issues of Origin and of the FanActivity Gazette.

Origin contents ORIGIN 52
Editorial: The Times are Favorable for Increase, by John Thiel, page three
What I Did, by Will Mayo, page five
Jeffrey Redmond, photographs, page seven
David H. Keller, by Jon Swartz, page eight
Overcoming Anxiety and Achieving Hope, by Judy Carroll, page fifteen
Afterthoughts, by John Thiel, page nineteen

Fanactivity Gazette contents FanAct13

Editorial: George Phillies writes.
Letter of Comment (Lloyd Penney)
Science Fiction Club News by Heath Row
Fanzines: Fanfaronade from Justin E. A. Busch
Television: Rabid Ears: Ravings of a TV Fiend by Cathode Ray
FANAC Fan History Project FANAC Newsletter 18
Motion Pictures: Celluloid Sentience By Cathode Ray
Conventions: Forthcoming Conventions by Mindy Hunt
Science Fiction Pro and Fan Birthdays from Heath Row
April 2022 SF Calendar and Cover Illo from Bob Jennings

Zine to Share: CyberCozen

CyberCozen, from Israel CCJune-2022-v02

This month’s roundup:

• More Yiddish-related SF material dedicated to my dear departed father, David Botwinik (o”h – ע”ה )

• Book review: “More Zion’s Fiction” Part 5: Hila Benyovits-Hoffman’s “Five Four Three Two One”

  • Our usual, interesting tidbits from the Web.
  • Readers reacted very well to Sheldon Teitelbaum’s reprinted article in our last issue. We’d love to see more of his articles regarding SF. – Your editor, Leybl Botwinik

Zines to share!

From Bill Burns:

Added today at https://efanzines.com are:

Guy H. Lillian III’s Spartacus #56

Octothorpe #59, a regular fannish podcast by Liz Batty, John Coxon and Alison Scott, is now on line

Guy & Rosy Lillian’s 2022 trip report The Iconic Route UK Parts 1 & 2

Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #17

From the n3F: Tightbeam333

Table of Contents
Front Cover … In Outer Space by Jose Sanchez
Back Cover … N3F Recruiting Poster by Alan White
Letters of Comment
4 … Will Mayo, Jeffrey Redmond, Jose Sanchez
Anime
4 … Girls’ Frontline by Jessi Silver
Cartoons
6 … Will Mayo Reviews Johnny Quest
Comics
6 … Will Mayo Reviews Alley Oop, The Archies, Richie Rich
Conventions
7 … Convention Report – Anime Central 2022 by Jessi Silver
Movies
11 … Madelines Twists the Time Travel Tropes by Jason P. Hunt
12 … Will Mayo Reviews Swamp Thing, Angelflesh, Maximum Overdrive, Field of Dreams
Radio
13 … Will Mayo Reviews the CBS Mystery Hour
Sercon
13 … Robert W. Lowndes Bio-Bibliography by Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D., N3F Historian
Song
16 … Will Mayo Reviews America’s Sandman, The Rolling Stones’ 2,000 Light Years, Roky Erickson’s If You Have Ghosts, Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Child
Verse
17 … Will Mayo Reviews ee cummings’s Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind
Video
17 … Will Mayo Reviews Tales From The Crypt, Lost In Space, Nimoy’s Mystery Show
Food of Famous Authors
18 … Eat This While You Read That: William Joseph Roberts … Cooking by Cedar Sanderson

Zines to share!

More Zines arrived!

Nic Farey sent us This Here, lots of footy news and lovely art by Ulrika O’Brian. TH 53

From the N3F, the N3F Review of Books Incorporating Prose Bono

N3FReview202205

Fiction

2 … A Long Time Until Now by Michael Z. Williamson … Review by Trevor Denning
3 … A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs … Review by Caroline Furlong
5 … A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon) … Review by Tom Feller
6 … Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire … Review by Perry Middlemiss
6 … Alexis Carew series by J.A. Sutherland … Review by Jim McCoy
8 … Beat The Devils by Josh Weiss … Review by Jason P. Hunt
9 … Chaos on Catnet by Naomi Kritzer … Review by Tom Feller
9 … Dark Sojourns by Beth H. Adams … Review by Heath Row
10 … Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin by Terrance Dicks … Review by Heath Row
11 … Drosselmeyer: Curse of the Rat King … Review by Trevor Denning
13 … The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delaney … Review by Perry Middlemiss
13 … Escape From the Future by Paul Clayton … Review by Michael Gallagher
16 … Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard … Review by Perry Middlemiss
16 … Five Hard and Crunchy SF Tales by Michèle Laframboise … Review by Robert Runté
17 … Foundation by Isaac Asimov … Review by Heath Row
19 … Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov … Review by Heath Row
19 … The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood … Review by Heath Row
21 … Jaguar Rising by Amanda S. Green … Review by Pat Patterson
22 … Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell … Review by Perry Middlemiss
22 … Light Unto Another World by Yakov Merkin … Review by Caroline Furlong
24 … Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny … Review by Perry Middlemiss
24 … Magnetic Brain by Volsted Gridban … Review by Heath Row
25 … Marymae and the Nightmare Man by A. M. Freeman … Review by Caroline Furlong
27 … Mission: Interplanetary by A.E. van Vogt … Review by Heath Row
28 … Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia … Review by Declan Finn
30 … The Mummy of Monte Cristo … Review by Trevor Denning
32 … My Luck by Mel Todd … Review by Declan Finn
34 … The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler … Review by Perry Middlemiss
34 … A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers … Review by Perry Middlemiss
35 … Responsibility of the Crown by G. Scott Huggins … Review by Pat Patterson
36 … The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons … Review by Tom Feller
36 … Servants of War by Larry Correia and Steve Diamond … Review by JE Tabor
38 … The Star Beast by Robert Heinlein … Review by Chris Nuttall
42 … Thunder God of Mars: A Superhero Prose Novel … Review by Trevor Denning
43 … We Dare: Semper Paratus: An Anthology of the Apocalypse edited by Jamie Ibson … Review by Pat Patterson
45 … When Valor Must Hold Edited by Rob Howell and Chris Kennedy … Review by Pat Patterson
46 … Year of the Unicorn by Andre Norton … Review by Caroline Furlong

Non-Fiction

49 … Fandom: Confidential by Ron Frantz … Review by Heath Row
50 … My Memoirs of the Dark Shadows Conventions by Anthony Taylor … Review by Heath Row
51 … The Politics of Fandom by Hannah Mueller … Review by Heath Row

Prose Bono

53 … Character Analysis: A Tale of Two People by Chris Nuttall
54 … Trimming Out the Story by Cedar Sanderson

FINIS … 55

More zines to share!

The N3F sends us:

Comics fans will want to read the sercon article on Space Detective, in TheTNFF. In Origin, the sercon article on SF in dime novels.

From Bill Burns over at e-fanzines, announcement of new arrivals.


New today at https://efanzines.com are:

David Grigg’s Through the Biblioscope #22

Opuntia #525, edited by Dale Speirs


Bill

Zine to share

From the N3F, NAPA258

In this issue:
Front Cover: Horsehead Nebula, eso.org
The Official Organ #258
Intermission 119, by Ahrvid Engholm – 18
Archive Midwinter, by Jefferson P. Swycaffer – 2
Snow Poster Township #4, by Heath Row – 4
Ye Murthered Master Mage, by George Phillies – 2
Intermission 120, by Ahrvid Engholm – 18
Synergy 39 May 2022, by John Thiel – 10
The Contents of a Good Life 25, by Will Mayo – 7
Samizdat… Ish #13, May/June 2022, by Sam Lubell – 7

Fanzines to share!

We have received several zines to share.

The N3F sent us:

MarkTime 140

MT VOID 2223

Fanact12

FanAct has a column for clubs, and MonSFFA’s May meeting is included. Cool! The article on Superman is also worth reading.

Guy Lillian sent us   SPARTACUS 55.       Great cover! Guy and Rosie have  been visiting the UK.

Bill Burns sent an update for new issues on e-fanzines:

More updates at https://efanzines.com, which brings me up to date:

New page for David Grigg’s Through the Biblioscope

New page for Steve Swartz’s better

New page for Heath Row’s APAzines

Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #23

Guy H. Lillian III’s Spartacus #55


Bill